Bill Text: TX HB1063 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to telemedicine medical, telehealth, and home telemonitoring services under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1063 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1063-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to telemedicine medical, telehealth, and home telemonitoring services under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1063 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1063-Comm_Sub.html
By: Price, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) | H.B. No. 1063 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2019; | ||
May 3, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1063 | By: Buckingham |
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relating to telemedicine medical, telehealth, and home | ||
telemonitoring services under Medicaid. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.0216(f), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(f) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
the commission shall report to the speaker of the house of | ||
representatives and the lieutenant governor on the effects of | ||
telemedicine medical services, telehealth services, and home | ||
telemonitoring services on Medicaid in the state, including the | ||
number of physicians, health professionals, and licensed health | ||
care facilities using telemedicine medical services, telehealth | ||
services, or home telemonitoring services, the geographic and | ||
demographic disposition of the physicians and health | ||
professionals, the number of patients receiving telemedicine | ||
medical services, telehealth services, and home telemonitoring | ||
services, the types of services being provided, [ |
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utilization, and the cost savings of telemedicine medical services, | ||
telehealth services, and home telemonitoring services to Medicaid. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 531.02164, Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (c)(1), the program | ||
required under this section must also provide that home | ||
telemonitoring services are available to pediatric persons who: | ||
(1) are diagnosed with end-stage solid organ disease; | ||
(2) have received an organ transplant; or | ||
(3) require mechanical ventilation. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 531.02176, Government Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to | ||
implement Section 531.02164(c-1), Government Code, as added by this | ||
Act, not later than December 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 5. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 6. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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